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Nigeria Army And The Igbo Quota

EditorApril 15, 2025April 15, 2025

by EditorApril 15, 2025April 15, 20250895

By Pascal Chimezie What is this new campaign to entice Igbo youths to join the Nigeria Army? Is it a set up for an agenda? Or does Brigadier-General Chima Ekeator led enlightenment team sent by the Nigeria Army authority to Southeast, holding townhall meetings, to persuade Igbo youths to take......

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Save Amaimo Ancient Kingdomin Ikeduru LGA Imo State From The Hands Of Enugu Electric

EditorApril 13, 2025April 15, 2025

by EditorApril 13, 2025April 15, 20250653

Permit me to use your esteemed medium to ask what the problem is, concerning our electricity supply and payment of electricity bills in Amaimo, Ikeduru LGA, Imo state. It is incredible and quite alarming, that while others are enjoying electricity supply in the neighbouring towns, Communities and environs, Amaimo......

Investing in Health is Key to Job Creation and Economic Growth

EditorApril 13, 2025

by EditorApril 13, 20250498

Ensuring that every person has access to health care is fundamental to ending poverty, increasing productivity, and building robust economies. With strong health systems in place, infants survive and grow up to thrive, girls and boys have the chance to develop skills and find good jobs, and parents......

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Nigeria and the part of our past (2)

EditorApril 13, 2025

by EditorApril 13, 20250482

By abiodun KOMOLAFE Nigeria’s current challenges are products of a complex interplay of historical, economic and social factors, including a flawed foundation, poor governance and successive elites’ inability to improve the country’s infrastructure and institutions. This foundational weakness has hindered national progress, resulting in unimpressive development indices. Those in......

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What Do the Awards for Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf Tell Us?

EditorApril 9, 2025

by EditorApril 9, 20250450

By Ibrahim Musa This week, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has found himself in the spotlight of national acclaim. As he leads his peers in a uniquely transformative leadership style, the nation seems to be taking note with keen interest. Three separate honors — from Vanguard Newspaper,......

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Akpabio Vs Natasha Kerfuffle: Impact of a tragedy

EditorApril 6, 2025April 6, 2025

by EditorApril 6, 2025April 6, 20250480

Emeka Udo Olaka The concatenation of events arising from the argy-bargy which erupted between the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio and Senator Natasha Akpoti – Uduaghan, a Senator representing Kogi Central, during a senate plenary over seat re – assignment, culminating in her (Natasha) 6 months suspension is taking a......

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Femi Falana, Citadel and Zinox: An Embarrassing Judicial Persecution

EditorApril 3, 2025

by EditorApril 3, 20250467

By Adewale Odumosu A major test for the Nigerian judiciary was the March 20, 2025 judgment of Justice Akpan Okon Ebong of the FCT High Court, who struck out a case filed by Mr. Femi Falana SAN, purporting to act on a fiat donated to him by......

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EDO MASSACRE: IS NIGERIA ABOUT TO EXPLODE?

EditorApril 2, 2025

by EditorApril 2, 20250510

By Ben AHANONU Again, Nigeria is standing at the crossroads; in fact, on the edge of a precipice. Is the country about to explode? Tempers are rising, many are very angry, some are shouting blue murder, some are issuing threats, some are spreading falsehoods, others want instant......

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Governors, Federalism, and Constitutional Tension

EditorMarch 30, 2025

by EditorMarch 30, 20250567

By Dakuku Peterside Tensions between Nigeria’s central and state governments have long been the fault lines of its federal system; it is like a simmering struggle between authority and autonomy. The 1999 Constitution, though intended as a compass for governance, is riddled with ambiguities—grey areas that have, time and again,......

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Why Senator Orji Uzor Kalu should not suffer double jeopardy – A humble plea

EditorMarch 30, 2025

by EditorMarch 30, 20250419

By Ben AHANONU Recently, the Appeals Court in Abuja, gave the Federal Government (FG), approval to challenge the judgement that barred the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from reopening the trial of former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu. In two separate rulings by a three-member......